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ANSERES. 



ANATID.E. 



ANATID^E. 



Anser brachyrhynchus, Baillon.* 

 THE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 



Anser hrachyrhynchus. 



On the 8th of January, 1839, at the first evening meeting 

 of the Zoological Society in that year, Mr. Bartlett exhibited 

 several species of Geese in illustration of a paper on a new 

 British species of the genus Anser, for which he proposed 

 the name of A. phcenicopus, on account of the pink colour 

 of the feet ; being then unaware that Baillon had previously 

 described the same species in an obscure publication, under 

 the name of A. hrachyrhynchus, with reference to its short 

 bill. At that time Mr. Bartlett had examined twelve 

 examples : four of them alive ; and in pointing out the 

 characteristics of this species and its allies, he remarked 

 that in the formation of its sternum the Pink-footed Goose 



* Mem. Soc. roy. d'emulation d' Abbeville, 1833, p. 74. 



